Table 5
Characteristics of selected high- and low-crime neighbourhoods, City of Saskatoon, 2001
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Pleasant Hill and Riversdale | Adjacent neighbourhoods1 | Central business district | Residential low-crime2 | City of Saskatoon | |
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percentage | |||||
Crime rate | 283 | 158 | 99 | 19 | 72 |
Dwellings built before 1961 | 51 | 57 | 19 | 0 | 26 |
Dwellings built after 1990 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 66 | 9 |
Dwellings needing major repairs | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
dollars | |||||
Average value of dwellings | 74,636 | 89,154 | 145,983 | 192,476 | 128,124 |
percentage | |||||
Renters | 71 | 40 | 82 | 2 | 31 |
Population aged 15 and under | 28 | 21 | 1 | 27 | 20 |
Population aged 65 and over | 10 | 12 | 54 | 5 | 12 |
Population living alone | 17 | 14 | 57 | 3 | 12 |
Lone-parent families | 29 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
Population without a high school diploma | 58 | 45 | 43 | 20 | 31 |
Population with a university degree | 7 | 8 | 21 | 28 | 20 |
Unemployment rate | 26 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 7 |
dollars | |||||
Average employment income | 21,507 | 26,723 | 37,418 | 54,156 | 37,290 |
percentage | |||||
Government transfers | 38 | 22 | 28 | 4 | 12 |
Low income | 63 | 33 | 29 | 3 | 20 |
Aboriginal peoples | 47 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero 1. Caswell Hill, King George, Meadowgreen, Mount Royal, West Industrial and Westmount. 2. Arbor Creek, Briarwood, Lakeridge, Stonebridge, University Heights S.C. and Silverspring. Note: Confederation Suburban Centre and 'industrial low-crime' neighborhoods do not figure at this table because they have less than 1,000 residents. Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, geocoded database 2001, and Census 2001. Table source: Statistics Canada, 2008, "Neighbourhood characteristics and the distribution of crime in Saskatoon", Crime and Justice Research Paper Series, Catalogue number 85-561-X. |
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